Chucking Woodchucks

Welcome to the Chucking Woodchucks!!! The home of Anu, Robyn, and Jordan. Please come on in, there's wood awaiting chucking!



By: Anu, Robyn, and Jordan of Mrs. Wheeler's 6/8 QUEST class.

About the Woodchucks:

Robyn: This woodchuck is crazy...fun!!!!! Loves to read, color, laugh, wear flower shirts...the list keeps on going for this little guy(girl)!!!
Anu: This woodchuck loves chucking, jokes, no homework, reading, exploring the forest(JK!!!)... a.k.a all the good stuff in life!!!!
Jordan: This woodchuck LOVES to read, draw random stuff, dance, laugh her evil laugh (totally awesome, must see!!!), and eat...heh heh heh...

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Alliteration: repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.Example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

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Pg.87	"In the moonlight he could see the frantic frightened eyes, and Kino aimed and fired between the eyes."	"frantic frightened eyes" has the F sound that alliteration has.

Allusion: A reference to a specific person, place, or thing.Example: "She is as pretty as the Mona Lisa."

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Pg. 22	"Kino had found the Pearl of the World."	It refers the pearl to the world in a way that shows it's important.

Assonance: Repeated vowel sounds.
Example: "The cat sat on the mat."

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Hyperbole: An extravagant exaggeration.
Example: "My backpack weighs a ton!"

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Pg.24	“In the pearl he saw how they were dressed- Juana in a shawl stiff with newness and a new skirt, and from under the long skirt Kino could see that she wore shoes.”	Even though the pearl could bring him a better life we wouldn't be able to see his "future" in the pearl's reflection.
Pg.51	"This is not a pearl- it is a monstrosity."	Instead of saying the the pearl is bad they say it is a monstrosity.
Pg.117	" And the pearl was ugly; it was gray, like a malignant growth.	Instead of just saying the pearl was ugly they say that is looked liked a malignant growth.

Imagery: Creating pictures for the senses.
Example: "The pitter-patter of the rain against the window."

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Pg.90	“And the pearl settled into the lovely green water and dropped toward the bottom”	This lets you picture what is happening and what the charters are seeing when Kino throws away the pearl.
Pg.80-81	" The freshets had made a small sandy beach through which the pool flowed, and bright green watercress grew in the damp sand."	Adding adjectives that are highly descriptive make this sentence a "painting" for the reader.
Pg.3	" And the goat came near and sniffed at him and stared with its cold yellow eyes."	This draws the image of what the eyes look like. Not only do they look yellow but they were cold too.

Metaphor: A comparison when one becomes the other.
Example: "The book was a passport to adventure."

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Pg. 1	“ Her dark eyes made little reflected stars.”	Tells that her eyes are stars but they aren't really it just the lighting.
Pg.21	"A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet."	Relating the town to a body/nervous system effectively produces an outstanding metaphor.

Onomatopoeia: Words whose sound suggests its meaning.
Example: "The bees buzzed."

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Pg.13	“ Fiddler crabs bubbled and sputtered in their holes in the sand…”	Shows what kind of noises the crabs are making in their holes.
Pg.59	" He hissed at her like a snake, and Juana stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before the butcher."	Shows the reader the sound that Kino produces: like a snake.

Personification: Giving human qualities to ideas and things.
Example: "Her stomach growled."

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Pg. 2	“Behind him Juana’s fire leaped into flame and threw spew spears of light…”	Fire can't throw spears or jump but humans can.
Pg.49	" The coin stumbled over a knuckle and slipped silently into the dealer's lap."	A regular coin can't "stumble" or "slip" onto someone's lap.
Pg.42	" Out in the estuary a tight woven school small fishes glittered and broke the water..."	Fish cannot be woven, or break through the water.
Pg.47	" But Kino's brain burned..."

Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as."
Example: "She floated in like a cloud."

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Pg.56	“ She froze with terror for a moment, and then her lips drew back from her teeth like a cats lips.”	When her lips drew back it was like a cat when it growls or hisses, instead of like a human growling.
Pg.28	" The thin dog came to him and threshed itself in greeting like a windblown flag, and Kino looked down at it and didn't see it."	"The dog...threshed itself in greeting like a windblown flag..." This shows how hard the dog's tail is wagging, and comparing the movement to a windblown flag.
Pg.21	" The gray oysters with ruffles like skirts on the shells..."	This shows what the ruffles look like, and how it's similar to a skirt.
Pg.44	' He scattered the old women like chickens."	This shows how the old women ran: exactly like scared chickens.

Symbol: Representation of somehting complex, general, or abstract.
Example: "The Statue of Liberty symbolizes the democratic ideal."

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Pg.67	“ ‘This pearl has become my soul,‘ said Kino.”	Kino is saying that this pearl is his life and to take it would “kill” him.
Pg.2	" His people had once been great makers of song so that everything they saw or thought or did or heard became a song."	Representing emotions/objects through song is a great example of symbolism!